Anna Karenina : a novel in eight parts by Leo Tolstoy(
Book
)28
editions published
between
2000
and
2013
in
English
and held by
2,395 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Tolstoy's epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition from Penguin Classics. Anna
Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until
the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike
and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this tale of love and self-destruction is the vividly
observed story of Levin, a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life - and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy
himself. This acclaimed modern translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky won the PEN/ Book of the Month Club Translation
Prize in 2001. Their translation is accompanied in this edition by an introduction by Richard Pevear and a preface by John
Bayley. "The new and brilliantly witty translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is a must". (Lisa Appignanesi,
Independent, Books of the Year). "Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English,
and their superb rendering allows us, as perhaps never before, to grasp the palpability of Tolstoy's "characters, acts, situations""

The brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky(
Book
)31
editions published
between
1990
and
2017
in
English
and held by
2,376 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The violent lives of three sons are exposed when their father is murdered and each one attempts to come to terms with his
guilt

Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky(
Book
)34
editions published
between
1992
and
2017
in
English
and held by
2,002 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A man must endure relentless physical and mental punishments as retribution for his act of murder

War and peace by Leo Tolstoy(
Book
)16
editions published
between
2007
and
2017
in
English
and held by
1,636 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
From Pevear and Volokhonsky, the bestselling, award-winning translators of "Anna Karenina" and "The Brothers Karamazov," comes
a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Tolstoy's master epic

The complete short novels by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov(
Book
)21
editions published
between
2000
and
2005
in
English
and held by
1,579 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"The Steppe is an account of a nine-year-old boy's frightening journey by wagon train across the steppe of southern Russia.
The Duel sets two decadent figures--a fanatical rationalist and a man of literary sensibility--on a collision course that
ends in a series of surprising reversals. In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical spying on an important official
by serving as valet to his son gradually discovers his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling
ways. Three Years recounts a complex series of ironies in the personal life of a rich but passive Moscow merchant. In My Life,
a man renounces wealth and social position for a life of manual labor. The resulting conflict between the moral simplicity
of his ideals and the complex realities of human nature culminates in a brief apocalyptic vision that is unique in Chekhov's
work."--Page 2 of cover

The possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky(
Book
)19
editions published
between
1994
and
2011
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
1,284 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A new translation of The Possessed and a new title to go with it. The translators claim it better reflects the spirit of what
basically is a novel of ideas, the demons of the title being the Western imports of idealism, socialism, materialism, nihilism,
atheism and so on

The idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky(
Book
)11
editions published
between
1869
and
2003
in
English
and held by
1,083 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Just two years after completing Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky produced a second novel with a very different man at its
center. In The Idiot, the saintly Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from a Swiss sanatorium and finds himself a stranger in
a society obsessed with wealth, power, and sexual conquest. He soon becomes entangled in a love triangle with a notorious
kept woman, Nastasya, and a beautiful young girl, Aglaya. Extortion and scandal escalate to murder, as Dostoevsky's "positively
beautiful man" clashes with the emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate his innocence and moral idealism. The Idiot
is both a powerful indictment of that society and a rich and gripping masterpiece."--Jacket

The unwomanly face of war : an oral history of women in World War II by Svetlana Aleksievich(
Book
)5
editions published
in
2017
in
English
and held by
1,013 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on
the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women--more than a million in total--were nurses and doctors, pilots,
tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices
were forgotten. Alexievich traveled thousands of miles and visited more than a hundred towns to record these women's stories.
Together, this symphony of voices reveals a different aspect of the war--the everyday details of life in combat left out of
the official histories." -- Publisher's description

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak(
Book
)12
editions published
between
2010
and
2017
in
English
and held by
935 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Boris Pasternak's widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and
Larissa Volokhnosky, the award-winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and to whom The New York Review of
Books declared, "the English-speaking world is indebted." First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy--the
novel was banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, and Pasternak declined the Nobel prize a year later under intense pressure
from Soviet authorities--Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian
Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead
embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago's love
for the tender and beautiful Lara: pursued, found, and lost again, Lara is the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those
cataclysmic times. Stunningly rendered in the spirit of Pasternak's original --resurrecting his style, rhythms, voicings,
and tone--and including an introduction, textual annotations, and a translators' note, this edition of Doctor Zhivago is destined
to become the definitive English translation of our time."--Jacket

Anna Karenina : a novel in eight parts by Leo Tolstoy(
Book
)17
editions published
between
2000
and
2012
in
English
and held by
893 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A new translation of Leo Tolstoy's novel "Anna Karenina", in which a woman of fine nature forsakes her husband for a lover,
and after a bitter experience commits suicide

The master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov(
Book
)30
editions published
between
1997
and
2016
in
English
and held by
871 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Presents an English translation of the Russian novel written at the height of Stalin's regime, in which Satan, in the guise
of a man named Woland, arrives in Moscow and begins to wreak havoc in the literary community, honing in on his real target,
an author called The Master, who has written a novel about Pontius Pilate

Notes from underground, and the grand inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky(
Book
)9
editions published
between
1993
and
2010
in
English
and held by
858 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A faithful translation of the classic written at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century follows the narrator's
withdrawal from his life as an official to the underground, where he makes passionate and obsessive observations on social
utopianism and the irrational nature of humankind

Dead souls by Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ(
Book
)10
editions published
between
1996
and
2011
in
English
and held by
838 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A comic masterpiece about Chechikov, a trafficker in souls (adult male serfs), who can still be of profit even when dead

The collected tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ(
Book
)11
editions published
between
1998
and
2012
in
English
and held by
767 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A new translation of stories by a 19th century Russian master. One story is on a madman convinced that a dog can tell him
everything he needs to know, another is on a downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by a new overcoat

The eternal husband and other stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky(
Book
)14
editions published
between
1997
and
2012
in
English
and held by
598 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Five classic stories in a new translation. The title story is on a relationship between a husband and his wife's lover, while
A Nasty Anecdote is a satire on a tsarist official who considers himself humane

The double ; and, the gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky(
Book
)7
editions published
between
2005
and
2007
in
English
and held by
579 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky's
strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler. The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare-foreshadowing
Kafka and Sartre-in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelganger, a man who has his name
and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him with his friends and colleagues. The Gambler is a stunning
psychological portrait of a young man's exhilarating and destructive addiction to gambling, a compulsion that Dostoevsky-who
once gambled away his young wife's wedding ring-knew intimately from his own experience. In chronicling the disastrous love
affairs and gambling adventures of Alexei Ivanovich, Dostoevsky explores the irresistible temptation to look into the abyss
of ultimate risk that he believed was an essential part of the Russian national character."--Publisher's website

The death of Ivan Ilyich and other stories by Leo Tolstoy(
Book
)7
editions published
between
2009
and
2010
in
English
and held by
560 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"This book is a new translation of Tolstoy's most important short fiction. Here are eleven stories from the mature author,
some autobiographical, others moral parables, and all imaginative, transcendent, and evocatively drawn. They include The Prisoner
of the Caucasus, inspired by Tolstoy's experiences as a soldier in the Chechen War, and one of only two of his works that
Tolstoy himself considered "good art"; Hadji Murat, the novella Harold Bloom called "the best story in the world," featuring
the real-life war hero Hadji Murat, a Chechen rebel who ravaged his Russian occupiers only to defect to the Russian side after
a falling-out with his own commander; The Devil, a tale of sexual obsession based on Tolstoy's relationship with a married
peasant woman on his estate in the years before his marriage; and the celebrated The Death of Ivan Ilyich, an intense and
moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption."--Jacket

The enchanted wanderer : and other stories by N. S Leskov(
Book
)6
editions published
between
2013
and
2014
in
English
and held by
544 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Presents newly translated verions of seventeen of Leskov's short stories, inspired by oral storytelling traditions, that range
from the fantastical to the satirical to the tragic

The adolescent by Fyodor Dostoyevsky(
Book
)11
editions published
between
2003
and
2004
in
English
and held by
492 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The narrator and protagonist of Dostoevsky's novel The Adolescent" "(first published in English as A Raw Youth) is Arkady
Dolgoruky, a na-ve 19-year-old boy bursting with ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he
is torn between his desire to expose his father's wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg
to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that
he believes gives him power over others. This new English version by the most acclaimed of Dostoevsky's translators is a masterpiece
of pathos and high comedy

The cherry orchard by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov(
Book
)4
editions published
in
2015
in
English
and held by
154 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"There have always been two versions of Chekhov's heartrending and humorous masterwork: the one with which we are all familiar,
staged by Konstatine Stanislavski at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, and the one Chekhov had originally envisioned. Now, for
the first time, both are available and published here in a single volume in translations by the renowned playwright Richard
Nelson and Richard Peavar and Larissa Volokhonsky, the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature. Shedding
new light on this most revered play, the translators reconstructed the script Chekhov first submitted and all of the changes
he made prior to rehearsal. The result is a major event in the publishing of Chekhov's canon. Richard Nelson's many plays
include Rodney's Wife, Goodnight Children Everywhere, Drama Desk-nominated Franny's Way and Some Americans Abroad, Tony Award-nominated
Two Shakespearean Actors and James Joyce's The Dead (with Shaun Davey), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical,
and the critically acclaimed, searing play cycle, The Apple Family Plays. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced
acclaimed translations of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations
of The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina won the 1991 and 2002 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prizes. Pevvear,
a native of Boston, and Volokhonsjky, of St. Petersburg, are married to each other and live in Paris."--